Balentine v. State

In Balentine v. State, 707 P.2d 922 (Alaska App. 1985) the Court recognized that the analysis of whether to admit a statement under the present sense impression exception is similar to the analysis of whether to admit a statement under the excited utterance exception. In Balentine, the Court affirmed the trial court's conclusion that the statements of a witness forty to fifty minutes after the shooting and then two hours after the shooting did not qualify as present sense impressions.